![]() Not the least of which is the insidious way in which the dominant culture’s values percolate into parts of the psyche… how come I thought there was something wrong with me in the first place? Private practice and 18 years of AIDS work (much of it concerned with grief and loss) taught me the importance of therapy in the context of peoples lived lives and to not underestimate the impact of living in an oppressive culture that privileges the white, the male, the heterosexual etc and disadvantages the “others” in many ways. And I learned there was nothing wrong with me. Why? The gestalt approach acknowledged the full range of who and how people are complex, messy, juicy, wonderful, terrible – not just black boxes with input and output slots, nor simply thinking machines. Graduated, emigrated, procrastinated, committed: A 3-year training program at the Gestalt Institute of Toronto. Encounter groups, human potential, Eastern religions, gender studies, cross-culturally informed perspectives I was hooked. ![]() Finally psychology was talking about people. In the final year of my undergrad I specialized in Humanistic Psychology. I still didn’t know what was wrong with me but, oh well, I could be useful and this stuff was very engaging. Over 12 weeks we had talks from the Samaritans, Alcoholics Anonymous, M.I.N.D… and I learned about reflective listening and the value of being heard. Obviously further study was the answer! At university (Keele, England) I took my first couselling course (in 1983) for the drop-in peer counselling centre. I took advanced level studies in college… but somehow all those dogs and bells, monkeys with wire mothers and drawings of neurons didn’t answer my question. Come to the Hamptons this summer and check us out! For more information of Bay Street, click here.I became interested in psychology as a teenager because I thought it could explain what was wrong with me. There are many special events as well, including a new concert series called Music Mondays, great concerts most Mondays in July and August with artists including Betty Buckley, Billy Porter, Jennifer Holliday and more. The productions will include the new musical The Man in the Ceiling by Jules Feiffer and Andrew Lippa, directed by Jeffrey Seller Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage’s beautiful play Intimate Apparel, which I will direct and a new production of Shakespeare’s As You Like It directed by Tony winner John Doyle that we are doing as a co-production with Classic Stage Company in New York. ![]() ![]() I’m very excited about it, my fourth season of programming as Artistic Director. If you happen to be in Germany or Japan, please come! Click here for info on Germany and click here for Japan.įinally, we are readying our 2017 Summer Mainstage Season at Bay Street. I am so happy that this wonderful show is finding such successful life around the world. We are currently playing in both Japan in Germany. Most recently, my production of Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame has gone international. She has transformed my life, so much for the better! The last two years have been busy to say the least! The biggest news of all is that my wife and I had a beautiful baby daughter named Esme Minette Schwarz, born June 29, 2016. It’s been a long time since I posted here.
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